Svmuu News: Ari Paul, founder of BlockTower Capital, stated that market makers may indeed engage in short-term trading during bearish markets—for example, pushing MSFT or BTC up by about 2% to trigger stop-loss orders—but such behavior is typically limited to intraday trading,with prices often reverting within seconds or minutes, having limited impact on the long-term trends of well-liquid assets like the Bitcoin ETF. He noted that the primary cause of the recent BTC decline lies in early holders selling tens of thousands of BTC, while market buying demand has been insufficient.Ari Paul believes that while large-scale, long-term manipulation is not entirely nonexistent, it is unlikely and carries high risks. In most cases, market deviations from expectations should not be simply attributed to “manipulation,” and investors should refine their analytical frameworks. Furthermore, compared to “downward manipulation,” “upward manipulation” is more common across various asset classes.